Roll-cleaning device for spinning-machines.



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l I NULL CLEANING DEVICE PON SPINNING MACH-INES.

I APPLICATION IILIID NAN. 'l. 1902.

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i UNITE STATESl VICTOR MAI-IEU, OF WILLIMANTIC,

CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO JOI-IN B. MCCARTHY, OF FRANKLIN, MASSACHUSETTS', J OI-l N OCONNOR, OF PUTNAM, CONNECTICUT, AND HARRY M. TURNER, OF

TURNERSVILLE, CONNECTICUT.

ROLL-CLEANING DEVICE FOR SPlNNING-MACHINES.

ECIFICATIONVforming part of Letters Patent No. 723,172, dated March 1'7, 1903. Application filed March 27, 1902.` Serial No. 1010,216. (No model.)

showing my roll-cleaning device applied thereto. Fig. '2 is'asectional view on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the roll-cleaner.

For the purposes of illustrating and describing my invention Ihave shown in the drawings three rolls A, B, and C, which may represent the rolls of a spinning-machine. These rolls are arranged in the machine one slightlyin advance of the other, and in order to keep them clean it has been customary to make use of a solid conical-shaped cleaner covered with a cloth or some like material, which is supported between these rolls and contacts with them, substantially as shown in the drawings. As the spinning-rolls revolve very rapidly, this conical roll travels lengthwise of them and cleans off any dust or dirt which accumulates. When these cleaners reach the end of the rolls, itis necessary 'to reverse'their position,`so that they will travel back again, and this reversing has always beendone Ybyfhand. There are hundreds of these cleaners used in a mill, and it is considerable trouble and bother to change their position and keep them moving all the A- while.

The object off-my invention is to produce a cleaning device which will automatically change its position so that it will continuously travel from side toside of the machine and relieve the attendant from watching and taking care of it.

In carrying out my invention I make use i of a cleaner D of a double-conical form with the larger ends of the cones together. This cleaner is hollow, as at E, and has exten-ding through it a wire or rod F,.which is of greater length than the body of the cleaner. This rod is free to move through the cleaner and has secured to it a weight G. At each side of the frame of the machine appurtenant to the rollers is a stop K.

The operation of thedevice is readily understood. When the cleaner is tilted in the -position shown in Fig. 1, it is moving across the rolls from left to right, it being held in that position-by the weight. It will be seen that the rod Fis projecting a little beyond the end of the cleaner. As the -cleaner moves still farther to the right it will move up on the rod, which is held against further movement by the plate K." The weight which is secured to the rod passes the center of the cleaner and tilts it in the opposite direction,` and the cleaner will immediately begin to move from right to left withthe rod projecting from its left end. When it gets to the opposite side of the machine, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. l, the rod Acomes in contact with the plate K and stops, While the cleaner continues to move up onto the rod until its position is reversed. This action continues as long as the machine is running, the cleaner moving continuously from one side of the niachine to the other and keeping the rolls in as clean a condition as possiblef It is clear that the details of construction of the cleanercan be varied without departing ,from the spirit of my invention, and I do not care to be limited in the use of this cleaner to rolls grouped or arranged as shown in the drawings. l

I claim as my'invention--- l. In a machine of the class specified the combination with the rolls, of an automatically-reversible cleaning device therefor comprising the hollow body, a weight located `Within the body, and means forsupporting said weight free from contact with the interior side walls of the hollow body.

2. In a device of the class specified the combination with the rolls, of an automaticallyreversible cleaning device therefor comprising the hollow body, the weight located therein, and a support for said weight, extending beyond the body, substantially as described.

3. A cleaning device for the `rolls of spinning-machines comprising the hollow body, the weight located therein, and a rod extending through said body and capable of movement ylengthwise thereof, said weight being secured to said rod, substantially as described and for the purposes set forth.

et. In a machine of the class specified, the

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rolls, stops located at each side of the machine appurtenant to said rolls, a cleaning device for said rolls comprisinga body part,a rod passing through said body, and a Weight secured to said rod, said rod being longer than the body of the cleaner and adapted for movement therethrough, substantially as described.

5. In amaohine of the class specified the combination with the rolls, of a cleaning device therefor comprising a hollow body of double-conical form, a weight located within the body, means for supporting said Weight free from contact with the sides of the hollow body, in combination with means acting upon said Weight to move it from oneend of the body to the other whereby the position of the body and the direction of its movement is altered.

6. The combination in a device of the class specified with the hollow body of greater diameter at its center than at its ends, a weight located within said body, of means for acting positively on the weight'to change its position from one end of the body to the other whereby the position of the body and its direction of movement is reversed.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

VICTOR MAHEU.

Witnesses:

J. OSULLIVAN, C. E. LARKIN. 

